Queen for a Day : Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela /

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Queen for a Day connects the logic of Venezuelan modernity with the production of a national femininity. In this ethnography, Marcia Ochoa considers how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss Venezu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ochoa, Marcia, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Transsexuals.
Femininity.
Beauty contestants.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Feminite > Venezuela.
Candidates (Concours de beaute) > Venezuela.
Transsexuels > Venezuela.
Femininity > Venezuela.
Beauty contestants > Venezuela.
Transsexuals > Venezuela.
Venezuela.
Electronic books.
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Summary:Queen for a Day connects the logic of Venezuelan modernity with the production of a national femininity. In this ethnography, Marcia Ochoa considers how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss Venezuela contest, on the well-traveled Caracas avenue where transgender women (transformistas) project themselves into the urban imaginary, and on the bodies of both transformistas and beauty pageant contestants (misses). Placing transformistas and misses in the same analytic frame enables Ochoa to delv.
Physical Description:1 online resource (294 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780822376996

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